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United States
Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
The intent of the Directory is to have a list of scientists who work in the US Antarctic Program (USAP). Currently the only list readily available is through the NSF Awards Database, and this listing is only of NSF principal investigators. There are many more scientists (e.g., students, post-docs, staff scientists, etc.), including those funded by other agencies, who are involved in USAP. The US Antarctic Scientists Directory compiled by US-SCAR will serve as a resource for new Antarctic proposers, will provide a means for people currently involved in USAP activities to find potential collaborators, will allow the general public to learn more about USAP activities and accomplishments, and provide a number of other benefits to the US Antarctic community.
To add your name to the Directory, please complete the Directory Registration Form.
If you have questions about the use and intent of the Directory, contact Deneb Karentz, US Delegate to SCAR. If at any time you need to make a correction to your listing or you would like to be deleted from the Directory, please use this form to request changes to your entry in the US Antarctic Scientists Directory.
Name | Position | City | State | NSF Antarctic Program | SCAR Science Group Affiliation | Antarctic Research Location(s) | Research Keywords |
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Andrew Klein | Full Professor | College Station | Texas | Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems | Geosciences Group | McMurdo Station, Palmer Station, ARSV Laurence M. Gould, Dry Valleys | Environmental Monitoring, Cryosphere |
Hongjie Xie | Full Professor | San Antonio | Texas | Antarctic Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences | Physical Sciences Group | McMurdo Station, Field camp - ship access, Other | sea ice thickness, freeboard, polynya, remote sensing, surface melting |
Eric Steig | Full Professor | Seattle | Washington | Antarctic Glaciology | Physical Sciences Group | McMurdo Station, Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, ARSV Laurence M. Gould, Field camp - fixed wing access, Field camp - helicopter access, Field camp - ship access | Ice cores, paleoclimate, ice dynamics, geochemistry, climate |
Kristin O Brien | Full Professor | Fairbanks | Alaska | Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems | Life Sciences Group | Palmer Station, ARSV Laurence M. Gould | Antarctic fish, metabolism, temperature, hypoxia |
Kirsty Tinto | Lamont Associate Research Professor | Palisades | New York | Antarctic Integrated System Science | Physical Sciences Group | McMurdo Station, Other | Ice-shelf, geology, aerogeophysics, gravity |
Cole Kelleher | Manager - Research Staff | Saint Paul | Minnesota | Polar Cyberinfrastructure | Standing Committee - Antarctic Geographic Information | McMurdo Station, Dry Valleys, No fieldwork (all research conducted remotely), Other | GIS, Remote Sensing, Imagery, Data, Geography |
Erika Jaski | Master's Student | Fort Collins | Colorado | Antarctic Earth Sciences | Geosciences Group | Mount Erebus | Mount Erebus, seismology, volcano, lava lake |
Cleverson Lima | Master's Student | Lexington | Kentucky | Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems | Life Sciences Group | Palmer Station | dehydration, Antarctic peninsula, Belgica antarctica, Eretmoptera murphyi, energetic costs |
Allyson Kristan | Master's Student | Baton Rouge | Louisiana | Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems | Life Sciences Group | No fieldwork (all research conducted remotely) | penguins, seals, stable isotopes, paleoecology |
Jay Johnson | Mechanical Engineer | Madison | Wisconsin | Antarctic Glaciology | Physical Sciences Group | McMurdo Station, Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Field camp - fixed wing access, Field camp - helicopter access, Dry Valleys | ice cores, ice coring, ice drilling, subglacial access |
Zoe Rechav | PhD Student | Madison | Wisconsin | Antarctic Astrophysics and Geospace Sciences | Physical Sciences Group | No fieldwork (all research conducted remotely) | neutrinos, IceCube, deep neural networking |
Julia York | PhD Student | Austin | Texas | Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems | Life Sciences Group | No fieldwork (all research conducted remotely) | notothenioids, neuroscience, evolution, TRP channels |
Jesse Osborn | PhD Student | Madison | Wisconsin | Antarctic Astrophysics and Geospace Sciences | Physical Sciences Group | No fieldwork (all research conducted remotely) | Astroparticle physics, astrophysics, particle physics |
Vedant Basu | PhD Student | Madison | Wisconsin | Antarctic Astrophysics and Geospace Sciences | Expert Group - Astronomy and Astrophysics | McMurdo Station, Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station | Astrophysics, Neutrinos, IceCube |
Kaitlin Allen | PhD Student | Berkeley | California | Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems | Life Sciences Group | McMurdo Station | physiology, diving, Weddell seal |
Allison Cusick | PhD Student | La Jolla | California | Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems | Life Sciences Group | Palmer Station, Field camp - ship access, Other | phytoplankton, genetics, fjords, citizen science, tourism |
Michael Campana | PhD Student | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania | Antarctic Astrophysics and Geospace Sciences | Physical Sciences Group | No fieldwork (all research conducted remotely) | astrophysics, particle physics, neutrinos, high energy physics |
Sabrina Heiser | PhD Student | Birmingham | Alabama | Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems | Life Sciences Group | Palmer Station | macroalgae, population genetics, chemical ecology, intraspecific diversity, phycology, ecosystem structure |
Jiyuan Liao | PhD Student | Atlanta | Georgia | Antarctic Astrophysics and Geospace Sciences | Expert Group - Astronomy and Astrophysics | Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station | experimental particle astrophysics |
Finnian Mayhew | PhD Student | East Lansing | Michigan | Antarctic Astrophysics and Geospace Sciences | Expert Group - Astronomy and Astrophysics | No fieldwork (all research conducted remotely) | particle physics, neutrino physics, non-standard neutrino interactions, beyond-the-Standard-Model physics |
Sarah Power | PhD Student | Blacksburg | Virginia | Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems | Life Sciences Group | McMurdo Station, Field camp - helicopter access, Dry Valleys | remote sensing, ecosystems, biogeosciences, microbial mat, soils |
Zheyang Chen | PhD Student | Stony Brook | New York | Antarctic Astrophysics and Geospace Sciences | Expert Group - Astronomy and Astrophysics | No fieldwork (all research conducted remotely) | neutrino physics |
Schuyler Borges | PhD Student | Flagstaff | Arizona | Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems | Life Sciences Group | McMurdo Station, Dry Valleys | Astrobiology, biosignatures, remote sensing, geobiology, microbial ecology |
Emilie Sinkler | PhD Student | Fairbanks | Alaska | Antarctic Glaciology | Geosciences Group | McMurdo Station, Field camp - fixed wing access | glaciology, ice deformation, ice cores, borehole logging |
Shaina Sadai | PhD Student | Amherst | Massachusetts | Antarctic Integrated System Science | Geosciences Group | No fieldwork (all research conducted remotely) | climate modeling, climate change, sea level rise, ice sheet modeling, climate justice |
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